Episode 77: Adults vs. Grown-Ups

    What's an adult, and what's a grown-up? Odds are, you think they're the same thing. That's what the general consensus is. They're synonyms. You might think of the latter as a more childish term, something kids call adults because they've finished their growing while they have not. Kids spend a lot of their time wishing they were older, so they see "grown-ups" as people who are free from being kids, who don't have to do chores and go to school. Kids are very ignorant and full of wishful thinking on that part.

    Maybe I'm weird, but adults and grown-ups are not the same thing to me.

    To be an adult is to reach the age of eighteen years old. That's it. That's the only requirement. From your eighteenth birthday on, you are an adult for the rest of your life. Can you vote and go into the military? Congratulations, that means you are eighteen and thus are an adult. But, that doesn't particularly mean that you're a grown-up.

    All grown-ups are adults but not all adults are grown-ups.

    A grown-up is an adult who has their life together. Has the sort of life a kid imagines when they think of what being an adult is. With more realism, of course. Grown-ups know what it's like to pay bills, own a house/car, maybe even raise their own kids. Grown-ups have themselves put together, at least relatively.

    I don't think I have to tell you that not all adults are put together. Many people over the age of eighteen are chaotic messes who don't have the semblance of a life that means being grown up.

   Anyway, I just this was a point I could talk about to constitute an episode. I hope you agree with me or at least understand why I make this distinction. 

See you next week!